TCL 10 Pro Android Smartphone -- DEMO & REVIEW By Dave Taylor

An Android smartphone from TCL. Let's check this out, Dave Taylor here checking out the TCL 10 Pro. This is one of TCL's, very first Android smartphones and there's a lot to like about it. But I'm going to be honest. There are some serious issues too we'll get to those. Now, let's start with the specs, first of which is in screen fingerprint scanner.

So I will put my thumb there nope there we go, and it unlocks the phone. So as you can see, it's not 100% reliable, but that's true of all in glass, fingerprint, sensors. So far, it's a tricky challenge, but the specs, the screen lots of cool stuff. So it's a six point. Four seven-inch F HD Plus curved AMO LED display with next vision and HDR 10.

So the screen is superb, but it's really nice and crisp and the phone's responsive. And if you want to watch a movie or something it's gonna, look gorgeous lots of tonight. It has adaptive tone and reading mode, so there's different light systems to help you with your eyes and not getting like too wigged out from blue light late at night and stuff, and it auto adjusts the display they even have an eye comfort mode which actually manages your blue light, which you should enable and all your devices. You should be thinking about that blue light and trying to minimize it now. The camera is actually a strip of four different cameras on the back, and it's a 64 megapixel AI quad camera, though I'm not exactly sure how that all plays out.

But again we'll come back to that. So at its maximum resolution, and I'll show you one of these. It gets 90 to 80 by 69, 44 pixel images, a lot of data with real-time HDR, 16 megapixel super wide angle, a low-light camera, a 960 frames per second super slow-motion, it's glass on both sides, and it's powered by the Qualcomm snapdragons 675, with six gigs of ram a hundred and twenty-eight gigs of memory and fifty percent charge in 35 minutes. It is not a wireless charging device, and they talk about something called reverse QI charging, but just assume it doesn't do anything. Furthermore, it's really not actually designed to do much at all Wireless.

So you have your plug. That's USB-C on the bottom and in fact, on the bottom, you can see in this close-up. That's also where you put the SIM card and there's a couple little cutouts for audio and then on the right hand, side, there's volume up volume down and the power button and on the left hand, side is a function button. You can assign two different tasks right now by default. If I push on it, it doesn't do much at all, which is fine and then on the top.

Yes is a 3.5 millimeter, audio jack, so basic phone functionality lots to like about this, there's really a lot I like and if we go into like about, then we can find out that, let's see this is running, it just had an update yesterday, so it is running Android 10, and it's this snapdragon 675, like I, said and has all the different cameras etc. All of that's right here on this screen super handy to be able to see that. So what's the problem well before we get to the problem, let's look at the box, so one of the things I really like is TCL includes a soft rubber case, not sure if you necessarily want to have display greatness across it, but hey it's a free case, so you can't complain too much about that and then also in the box is a sim removal tool and in here is nothing because I already pulled the manuals out and then on the bottom. You have a USB-C charging, cable and the actual wall charger, and that's it that's all you get so no earbuds, no audio device of any you know not even any stickers come on TCL, but you were bigger issues in stickers. So the problem with this is not the screen.

It's not the performance, it's not. Their version of I am Android 10, it's all about the cameras, and it just turns out they're, not really very good. So, instead of just talking about it, though, let's walk through some examples. So first off I took this same photograph in wide-angle, normal and zoomed in, and look at that zoomed in shot. That's really kind of weird.

This is just the digital zoom on the camera, and it looks like it became a pen and ink drawing it's really strange. My impression is that the pixel just couldn't collect enough data to actually have a crisp, rendering kind of strange, and then here I talked about that 64 mega pixel, AI quad camera. So here it is in extra-large render mode. So this is a 90 to 80 by 6944 pixel shot, and I'm going to zoom in, so you can see that it really does collect a lot of data. This particular photo is 22 megabytes, then there's macro mode, which I wasn't too impressed with.

As you can see here, I know really want macro to be really tight and crisp, and let me get really, really close and this didn't quite pull that off and then night mode well, I tried night mode by default. It used the flash here's what that photo looked like, but then, when I disabled, the flash and just held the camera, steady I got actually a better and more interesting picture, though the color chip, you know, are like way out of whack. It is way weirdly, warm and orange yellow, but maybe that's just a low-light image. So the real issue here was the video. So let's look at this video, and it's very pleasant, but when we zoom in on the phone to actually get tighter resolution- or you know to sort of zoom in on that detail- look at the poor image information.

It's just not very crisp. And fundamentally that's the issue that I have with this phone. Is that there's so much to like they got all the specs right but I. You know they even have something super unusual, which is that the camera lenses don't stick out great, but I think they went too far down that road, and they ended up with a poor camera, and it just doesn't take very good pictures or does it capture a very good video and that's a problem because, however much you're paying for your smartphone nowadays, people expect perfect cameras. I mean why not right, so that was a real disappointment on an otherwise really nice phone, with a perfect hand feel and a gorgeous screen, and some really nice specs, but because of the camera, I'm going to suggest you check out the TCL 11 or whatever it is.

The next phone they're going to come out with, and hopefully between now, and then they're going to take this strip of cameras and entirely replace it with a new set. So once they can beef up that camera, this is gonna, be a killer, phone's, a really nice addition, but right now, I'm going to give you a hold recommendation for Evan than a buy recommendation. So only thing left to talk about is the price, but before we get to the price I'm going to ask if you can subscribe to my channel really appreciate when you do that great now, TCL 10 Pro for $49.99 at TCL usa. com, you can go check it out. You can see what other people have said about it.

You can watch other videos. Read other reviews, see what you think. Some people really liked it and didn't have an issue with the camera, not sure what their experiences were and how they were different to mine. But you know different people see different things in a device. For me this is not going to go on my top ten list for 2020, but who knows maybe the next version will be been absolutely knock out of the park, as we say in American baseball and with that I'll catch.

You in my next video.

Source : Dave Taylor